Primitive Technology
Date de parution : 2 mai 2015
 | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Wattle and Daub Hut I built this hut in the bush using naturally occurring materials and primitive tools. The hut is 2m wide and 2m long, the side walls are 1m high and... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Thatched Dome Hut I built this thatched dome hut on a mountain ridge using completely primitive tools and materials. The frame was 2.5 m in diameter and 2 m tall. It... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Firesticks Making fire sticks primitively from scratch, making a fire using the sticks and making and firing a small pot to test clay from the hut. The species... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Stone Axe (celt) The manufacture of a stone ax including the handle from using only primitive tools and materials. It is a celt (pronounced "selt") a type of ax with... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Making poisonous Black bean safe to eat (Moreton Bay Chestnut) Cooking and leaching Black bean to remove the poison making it safe to eat. A basket was made to leach the poison out in a stream. Also shown are... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Stone Adze The video shows the construction and use of a stone adze.To put this video in context, the dome hut you see in the video is in the same spot as the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 7 | Wood shed and Native bee honey It has been raining here quite a bit in what should normally be the dry season. The wattle and daub hut is standing up well despite this (see video).... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 8 | Palm Thatched Mud Hut This is an old hut I built 2 years ago and have since demolished. It was a 2 m square floor with wattle and daub walls 1.5 m high topped with a... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 9 | Tiled Roof Hut I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 10 | Chimney and pots I installed a fireplace and chimney in the tiled roof hut. This is for for lighting and cooking. Heating is already taken care of by the underfloor... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 11 | Sling A sling is a weapon used to fire rocks farther and harder than could be thrown by hand alone. I made this sling from bark fiber that I made into cord.... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 12 | Baskets and stone hatchet I made 2 types of basket and a celt hatchet. The first type of basket made was a coil basket. Bunches of palm leaves where wrapped in thin strips of... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 13 | Cord drill and Pump drill I made a cord drill and then upgraded it to a pump drill. A cord drill is basically a spindle with a fly wheel attached so it looks like a spinning... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 14 | Charcoal I made a batch of charcoal using the mound method then stored it in baskets for later use. Charcoal is a fuel that burns hotter than the wood it's... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 15 | Bow and Arrow I made this bow and arrow using only primitive tools and materials.The bow is 1.25 m (55 inches) long and shoots 60 cm (2 feet) long arrows. I don't... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 16 | Woven bark fiber I made a rough type of textile from bark fibre. This is the same tree I use for making cordage though I don’t know its name. It has been raining a... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 17 | Sweet potato patch I built a fenced enclosure and cultivated sweet potatoes (from civilisation) and yams (from the wild) in it. I originally had a small 3X3 m garden... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 18 | Grass hut I built this grass hut up on a ridge. It's roughly parallel with the tiled hut and wattle and daub hut that are a couple of hundred meters away down... | |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 19 | Forge Blower I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 20 | Barrel Tiled Shed I built a tiled roof shed to provide a fire and rain proof shelter for working on projects during wet weather and for storing firewood. The shed... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 21 | Spear Thrower A spear thrower is a simple tool that allows the user to throw a spear further than by hand alone. It is a small length of wood with a hook in the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 22 | Freshwater Prawn Trap I built a prawn trap from lawyer cane, sticks and vine. Then I caught some prawns and ate them. Prawn (and fish) traps are simple traps designed to... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 23 | Bed Shed I built a bed shed, a small shelter with a sleeping platform built into it. It’s quicker to build than a large hut but can be extended later on when... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 24 | Planting Cassava and Yams In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 25 | Termite Clay Kiln and Pottery I built this pottery kiln and some pottery from termite mound clay to test an alternative clay source to my usual one from the creek bank. I started... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 26 | Water Powered Hammer (Monjolo) I built a water powered hammer called a “Monjolo”. I started by making a water spout from half a hollow log to direct water from the creek. This was... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 27 | Reusable charcoal mound Charcoal is a valuable fuel that reaches a higher temperature than the very wood it’s made from. I’ve made some before, but with supplies running... | |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 28 | Sandals I made a pair of sandals from loya cane. Walking bare footed in the bush generally doesn't cause problems for my feet. But when repetitively... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 29 | Simplified Blower and furnace experiments The purpose of this project was to test a simplified blower design connected to a furnace. I purposely did this to show that people in most natural... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 30 | Mud Bricks I made a brick mold that makes bricks 25 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm from wood. A log was split and mortise and tenon joints were carved using a stone chisel... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 31 | Natural Draft Furnace I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 32 | New area starting from scratch I bought a new property to shoot primitive technology videos on. The new area is dense tropical rainforest with a permanent creek. Starting... | |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 1 | New area starting from scratch I bought a new property to shoot primitive technology videos on. The new area is dense tropical rainforest with a permanent creek. Starting... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Pottery and Stove I made some pottery from the clay in the new area to see how well it performed. A large bank of clay was exposed by the side of the creek. I dug it... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 3 | A-frame hut I built an A frame hut as a large work space for projects. First I made a celt hatchet to cut timber for the hut. The axe head was made of... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 4 | Lime At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 5 | Round hut I built a round hut using palm thatch and mud walls to replace the damaged A-frame hut built a few months ago. The A frame hut was damaged due to... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 6 | Blower and charcoal I made a blower and some charcoal at the new area in order to create higher temperatures in for advancing my material technology. I took Fan palm... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 7 | Yam, cultivate and cook I planted a yam in a large basket like enclosure and then 6 months later harvested, cooked and ate it. My previous attempts at growing yams were... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 8 | Wood Ash Cement I developed an experimental cement from made only from re-fired wood ash as its cementitious material. It was mixed with crushed terracotta as an... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 9 | Iron Prills I smelted iron bacteria in a short furnace and produced a small quantity of iron prills (small iron spheres). In my ongoing quest to reach the iron... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 10 | Pit and Chimney Furnace While I’m working on other projects I’ll put up this video of an experimental furnace I built that operates by natural draft and uses charcoal as a... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 11 | Stone Yam Planters With the wet season here, it's time to plant this years crop of yams. The previous yam garden, a large basket type enclosure, worked well in... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 12 | Grass thatch, Mud hut With the wet season at it's peak, a shelter was needed to keep tools and materials dry as well as providing a dry work-space for future projects. So... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 13 | Fired Clay Bricks I made some fired clay bricks as an experiment to see if I could make a permanent, waterproof, building material. A brick mold was fashioned from... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 14 | Polynesian Arrowroot Flour I gathered polynesian arrowroot, grated it, extracted and dried the starch and cooked it into gelatinous, pancake shaped food that tasted like rice... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 15 | Crossdraft kiln I built a cross draft kiln and fired a pot in it to test ideas about how cross draft kilns operate. A cross draft kiln is one in which the flames... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 16 | Hut burned down, built new one My hut burned down after I left a fire untended in it. I needed a new one quickly. Fortunately I had already cleared a new spot earlier in the wet... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 17 | Adobe wall (dry stacked) I made clay bricks, air dried them and then built a dry stacked (no mortar) wall from those bricks. Brick making is a time consuming process. To... |
